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From: Jolly Roger on 23 May 2010 16:16
In article <vilain-77F67A.12103323052010(a)news.individual.net>,
Michael Vilain <vilain(a)NOspamcop.net> wrote:

> In article <jollyroger-531D17.10592623052010(a)news.individual.net>,
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > In article <htbino$7hc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> > J Burns <burns4(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Mike Rosenberg wrote:
> > > > Kir�ly <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> J Burns <burns4(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
> > > >>> I haved a PPC with Tiger. Animated GIFs can hog my CPU. Is there a
> > > >>> way
> > > >>> to keep them from loading and running?
> > > >> Try PithHelmet.
> > > >>
> > > >> http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/mac/18158
> > > >
> > > > Agreed about PithHelmet, but are animated GIFs really a CPU hog? Sure,
> > > > they can be really annoying, but AFAIK they're nothing like Flash
> > > > animations in terms of CPU usage.
> > > >
> > > I googled and found that even people with dual-core Intels have trouble.
> > > OS X doesn't handle them well. I think it depends on the number of
> > > pixels, the frame rate, and how many are on a page. If I open a forum
> > > page where somebody has posted ten times with an avatar that's a
> > > 60k-pixel animated GF, I'll get beach balls.
> >
> > When I open this page on my dual quad-core Intel Xeon Mac Pro, the
> > animations start immediately, and Safari uses only 8.6% CPU:
> >
> > <http://lee.org/reading/general/Hampsterdance/>
> >
> > On my Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, the same page uses around 11.6% CPU.
>
> This site consumes 46% CPU on my Dual G4. Obviously YMMV.

You are using a different OS, different WebKit, different Safari
version, and older architecture, so that's not surprising.

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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?= on 23 May 2010 20:26
Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> > <http://lee.org/reading/general/Hampsterdance/>
>
> > On my Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, the same page uses around 11.6% CPU.
>
> Even on my G4 iBook it's not beachballing. It is using 50-70% of the
> processor (settling about 54%, but it did spike up to 70.4 during the
> first cycle)

30-35% on my Mac (eMac G4, 1.25GHz, 1.5GB RAM). It topped out at 38%.
No beachballing.

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